Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops

Nutanix virtualization environments

Follow this guidance when using Nutanix Acropolis to provide virtual machines in your Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops deployment. The setup process includes the following tasks:

  • Install and register the Nutanix plug-in in your Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops environment.
  • Create a connection to the Nutanix Acropolis hypervisor.
  • Create a machine catalog that uses a snapshot of a master image you created on the Nutanix hypervisor.

For more information, see the Nutanix Acropolis MCS plug-in Installation Guide, available at the Nutanix Support Portal.

Install and register the Nutanix plug-in

Complete the following procedure to install and register the Nutanix plug-in on the Cloud Connectors. Use the Manage functions in Citrix Cloud to create a connection to the Nutanix hypervisor. Then create a machine catalog that uses a snapshot of a master image you created in the Nutanix environment.

Tip:

Citrix recommends that you stop, then restart the Citrix Host Service, the Citrix Broker Service, and the Machine Creation Service when you install or update the Nutanix plug-in.

For information about installing the Nutanix plug-in, see the Nutanix Documentation site.

Create a connection to Nutanix

See Create a Site or Connections and resources for complete information about all pages in the wizards that create a connection.

In the Site Setup or Add Connection and Resources wizard, select the Nutanix connection type on the Connection page. Specify the hypervisor address and credentials, plus a name for the connection. On the Network page, select a network for the hosting unit.

Create a machine catalog using a Nutanix snapshot

This information is a supplement to the guidance in the Create machine catalogs article. It describes only the fields that are unique to Nutanix.

The snapshot you select is the template that is used to create the VMs in the catalog. Before creating the catalog, create images and snapshots in Nutanix.

  • For information about master images in general, see the Create machine catalogs article.
  • For Nutanix procedures for creating images and snapshots, see the Nutanix documentation.

The Operating System and Machine Management pages do not contain Nutanix-specific information. Follow the guidance in the Create machine catalogs article.

On the Container page, which is unique to Nutanix, select the container where the VMs’ disks reside.

On the Master Image page, select the image snapshot. Use the Acropolis console to rename your snapshots, if needed. If you rename snapshots, restart the Create Catalog wizard to see a refreshed list.

On the Virtual Machines page, indicate the number of virtual CPUs and the number of cores per vCPU.

The Network Cards, Computer Accounts, and Summary pages do not contain Nutanix-specific information. Follow the guidance in the Create machine catalogs article.

Nutanix virtualization environments